Bones discovered in a cave at Kirkdale , in Yorkshire, sn 
his branch, and appears to have followed the course of a 
fissure, since it is said that all the way nothing appeared but 
rubble, large stones, ochre, and bones : in the second chamber, 
immediately beyond the entrance of the branch just described, 
there appeared a large deep opening, tending perpendicularly 
downwards, filled with the same congeries of rubble, ochre, 
bones, &c. ; this was cleared to the depth of five yards ; this 
point, being the deepest part of the workings, was estimated 
at about thirty-six yards beneath the surface of the hill ; a 
few yards to the west of this another similar hole occurred, 
in which was found a large head, which we shall have occa- 
sion presently to notice/' 
The bones from this cavern, preserved in Mr. Catcott's 
cabinet in the Bristol library, are the teeth and fragments of 
some bones of the elephant ; and similar remains of horses, 
oxen, and two species of stag, besides the skeleton, nearly 
complete, of a fox. There are also molar teeth of the hog, 
and a large tusk of the upper jaw ; (see PI. XXV. fig. go, 31, 
32, 33.) This tusk probably belonged to the head mentioned 
in his MS. as having been found in the pit above described, 
and of which the following particulars are specified : — “ The 
head was stated by the workmen to have been about three or 
four feet long, fourteen inches broad at the top, or head part, 
and three inches at the snout. It had all the teeth perfect, 
and four tusks, the larger tusks about four inches long out of 
the head, and the lesser about three inches/'* The tusk now 
• The head here described, is evidently that of a hog ; the account of its length 
being exaggerated by the workmen, from whose report alone Mr. Catcott gives 
the measures of it. The head itself was lost or destroyed before he had seen it. 
